The green-tiled frontage of P Galkoff Family Butchers in Pembroke Place was a landmark to travellers for decades.

But the shop, which supplied meat to the doomed Titanic, closed in the 1970s and the tiles are now hidden behind hoardings as the building has fallen into dereliction.

Now the facade is set to be moved to the Museum of Liverpool so Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM) can redevelop the site and the building next door - the last surviving remains of court housing in Liverpool.

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The waterfront museum wants to hear from anyone who has any memories of the old Galkoff’s store or who has any family connection to the court housing.

It is holding an event today at the museum from 2pm, where people can share their stories.

LSTM and the museum have won a £52,400 Heritage Lottery Fund grant to carry out “exploratory work” on this research project.

If successful, the organisations plan to apply for a full Lottery grant in 2017 to carry out a full research project into Pembroke Place, including archaeological investigations into the court housing site to learn more about how people lived in such cramped accommodation.

That in turn will feed in to a new display at the museum, alongside the Galkoff’s frontage, which will be called The Secret Life of Pembroke Place.